One of the hardest things to do is organize our daily activities within the time-frame we are given. Time, I am absolutely obsessed with it. I have written any number of sites and webpages dedicated to it. One of the first things I did for InDepthInfo was a series of articles on the Days of the Week. Then I wrote the Month’s of the Year. And just recently I produced How Clocks Work.

In spite of 35 years of failure to be perfect in my quest for self-organization. I realize that the constant attempt to do so has kept me productive. I guess the attempts should continue. In this vein I am trying out a new system that harkens back to my Navy days, when every officer was issued a “wheel book”. I am going to begin the day with a blank index card and write down everything I plan to do that day. At the end of the day, I will assess my success or failure. No doubt there will be items that will fall into the next day.

It is interesting that my 12 year old daughter and I have been having conversations about this very subject, prompted by herself and not me. She tells me that she never gets done everything that she sets her mind to for the day. I did not tell her that this is the very nature of human existence. The constant struggle is what makes us better people. I had a boss who once told me that if you get only half of what you plan to do accomplished, you can do great things.